I have different technical questions I want to ask. I went to Stack Overflow and they blocked registration with a VPN. It’s really fucking annoying. I can buy a residential IP to bypass this, but I’d rather just not use these enshitified platforms that are so hostile to VPNs.

Is there any decent alternative to Stack Overflow? I have tried getting AI answers to the technical question but they are not good.

And no, I can’t just create a github ID using VPN to login, they block github logins based on IP also.

  • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    I don’t have an answer for you I’m sorry.

    I think I asked a question on S/O once, like 10 years ago, and I got the usual “this question has been asked before” bullshit so I just never tried again.

    These days I mostly just search for technical answers, yes often the answers are on S/O but often they’re elsewhere.

    I also use a self hosted instance of openwebui to chat with LLMs hosted by huggingface. You’re correct that often technical answers are insufficient, but often it’s helpful. For example today I was trying to measure contrast between 2 colors. The chat bot gave me theory, explanation, and a working spreadsheet formula in a few seconds. It didn’t complain about how I’d formatted my question or that someone else may have asked the same question.